<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Oct 6, 2558 BE, at 6:36 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div>As this becomes more widely known and affordable in US farms, it will be interesting to witness the effect on immigration.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>Turning away undocumented cheap labor when it is needed to keep food prices down is one thing.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe current agriculture policies probably do much to raise prices on average.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>But once even cheaper robotic labor takes over...<br><br></div>Same thing with other industries that currently employ a large enough number of illegal immigrants to apply political pressure against sealing the borders.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I reckon a bad consequence could of be fostering further sealing of borders. (Not just of the US, but of other nations as well. US-Americans aren't the only folks with xenophobic tendencies. I think such are pretty common across the globe.) Though the demand would be lower for some farm labor, so it might simply cause the issue to be of less concern.<div><br></div><div>Then again, I feel immigration is an issue more because of anti-foreign bias than because of economic competition. (Were it mostly the latter, there'd be louder calls for regulating internal migration, IMO.)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</font></a></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>